Ribes aureumPursh

golden currant

WFO wfo-0000404928 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Ribes aureum, photographed by Cecelia Alexander
fig. a Cecelia Alexander, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204801613
Ribes aureum, photographed by cwhippo
fig. b cwhippo, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201720420
Ribes aureum, photographed by Michael Cook
fig. c Michael Cook, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 213977683
Ribes aureum, photographed by Vladimir Atachkin
fig. d Vladimir Atachkin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200241878
Ribes aureum, photographed by James H. Thomas
fig. e James H. Thomas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198262933
Ribes aureum, photographed by machaut2
fig. f machaut2, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196461257
Ribes aureum, photographed by Daniel S.
fig. g Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193301714

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Flowering n = 1,882 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,882 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 40 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Chrysobotrya aurea (Pursh) Rydb.
  • Chrysobotrya intermedia Spach
  • Chrysobotrya lindleyana Spach
  • Chrysobotrya odorata (H.L.Wendl.) Rydb.
  • Chrysobotrya revoluta Spach
  • Coreosma longiflora Lunell
  • Coreosma longifolia Lunell
  • Coreosma odorata (H.L.Wendl.) Nieuwl.
  • Ribes aureum f. chrysococcum (Rydb.) Rehder
  • Ribes aureum f. leiobotrys (Koehne) Zabel
  • Ribes aureum prol. chrysococcum (Rydb.) Jancz.
  • Ribes aureum prol. melanococcum Jancz.
  • Ribes aureum subsp. gracillimum (Coville & Britton) A.E.Murray
  • Ribes aureum var. chrysococcum Rydb.
  • Ribes aureum var. longiflorum Jancz.
  • Ribes aureum var. sanguineum Lindl.
  • Ribes aureum var. serotinum Lindl.
  • Ribes aureum var. tenuiflorum (Lindl.) Jeps.
  • Ribes ebracteatum Berland.
  • Ribes flavum Berland.
  • Ribes fontainesii Colla
  • Ribes fragrans G.Lodd.
  • Ribes gracillimum Coville & Britton
  • Ribes inodorum Link

and 16 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.